Anna Z. CzarnaJagiellonian University | UJ
Anna Z. Czarna
Ph.D.
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Anna Z. Czarna currently works at Jagiellonian University. Anna does research in Personality and Social Psychology.
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September 2014 - December 2015
October 2011 - August 2014
September 2006 - September 2011
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This research was aimed to provide a comprehensive test of the classic notion that narcissistic individuals are appealing as short-term romantic or sexual partners. In three studies, we tested the hypotheses that narcissism exerts a positive effect on an individual's mate appeal and that this effect is mediated by high physical attractiveness and h...
The objective of this study was to test the effects of two types of narcissism on popularity in peer networks. Using data from four groups of well-acquainted students (N=122), we investigated differential relations of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism with network centrality indicators of liking and disliking. Grandiose narcissists received a lar...
In this research, we investigated the association between narcissism and one central aspect of empathy, susceptibility to emotional contagion (the transfer of emotional states from one person to another). In a laboratory study (N = 101) we detected a negative link between narcissism and emotional contagion in response to experimentally induced posi...
This research investigated effects of narcissism and emotional intelligence (EI) on popularity in social networks. In a longitudinal field study we examined the dynamics of popularity in 15 peer groups in two waves (N=273). We measured narcissism, ability EI, explicit and implicit self-esteem. In addition, we measured popularity at zero acquaintanc...
Consumption of luxury generates both psychological benefits and costs to consumers. The current work scrutinizes social costs of luxury goods consumption, namely how luxury brand consumers are perceived by observers. Across four experiments (N 1A = 343, N 1B = 374, N 2 = 368, N 3 = 113) employing diverse stimuli (brands and models), we tested the e...
Grandiose narcissists claim that they have better-than-average emotion recognition abilities, but many objective tests do not support this claim. We sought to clarify the relation between grandiose (both agentic and communal) narcissism and emotion recognition by taking a closer look at the components of emotion recognition. In two studies (N1 = 14...
Research has linked hormones to behavioral outcomes in intricate ways, often moderated by psychological dispositions. The associations between testosterone and antisocial or prosocial outcomes also depend on dis-positions relevant to status and dominance. In two studies (N1 = 68, N2 = 83), we investigated whether endogenous testosterone, measured i...
Adaptive emotional responding is crucial for psychological well‐being and the quality of social interactions. Resting heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of autonomic nervous system activity, has been suggested to index individual differences in emotion regulation (ER). As non‐intimate social interactions require more regulatory efforts than in...
People believe that they would disobey immoral authority in the Milgram experiment. We asked whether high (vs. low) communal and agentic narcissists would manifest a more pronounced better-than-average effect (BTAE) in their predicted disobedience. Participants (N = 348) estimated the moment at which they and the average peer would quit the Milgram...
The three goals of this chapter are to introduce readers to construct of narcissism, to review the literature on the evolutionary origins of narcissism, and to review the literature on narcissism and emotions. Narcissism will be discussed as both a personality trait that is comprised by grandiose and vulnerable expressions, as well as a personality...
Partner-enhancement refers to perceiving the romantic partner more positively than one’s own self. Partner-enhancement often varies as a function of relationship duration: It is stronger in the earlier than later stage of a relationship. We asked whether narcissism moderates the association between relationship duration and partner-enhancement. We...
The present study examined the relationship of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism with dispositional anger and hostility. We investigated the roles of neuroticism, emotional intelligence, and gender in this relationship, using a sample of 405 participants. The results indicated that vulnerable narcissism was associated with a higher tendency towar...
This article presents a short research report on the relationship between perceived antagonism in social relations measured using the Belief in a Zero-Sum Game (BZSG) scale, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect. Given that individuals who believe that life is like a zero-sum game are likely to perceive their daily interactions with o...
Objectives: We aimed to introduce, validate, and showcase the utility of a new construct: communal collective narcissism.
Method: We conducted four studies, in which we developed a new scale for communal collective narcissism (Study 1, N = 856), tested the construct’s unique predictions (Study 2, N = 276), examined its social relevance (Study 3, N...
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The current research comprehensively examined how grandiose and vulnerable narcissism are linked to intelligence and intelligence-related beliefs and emotions.
Method:
In four studies (total N = 1141) we tested the associations between both forms of narcissism, subjectively and objectively assessed intelligence, basic personality trai...
Synonyms: Personality and interpersonal closeness; Personality traits and interpersonal attraction; Personality traits and relationships with friends.
Definition: Described as one of basic human needs, friendship is one of the most important relations in people’s lives and a common personal experience (Baumeister and Leary 1995). Personality plays...
Close your eyes and imagine an ideal leader. What would that image look like? What kind of characteristics come to mind? Dominance, confidence, high self-esteem, and extraversion are characteristics that are most commonly associated with people’s image of a leader. Interestingly, narcissistic individuals fit this leader image fairly well, which mig...
Emotional processes are of key importance for the understanding of narcissism, in both its grandiose and its vulnerable forms. The current chapter provides an overview on the links between narcissism and emotionality. The two forms of narcissism differ distinctly in their hedonic tone, with vulnerable narcissism being characterized by negative emot...
This work was aimed at investigating relationships between grandiose narcissism and Problematic Internet Use (“Internet addiction”) as well as unempathetic responding in social media. Prior studies provided conflicting findings concerning the link between narcissism and Problematic Internet Use. We hypothesized that Problematic Internet Use would b...
Dark personality traits such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy have been shown to impact work-related outcomes. The impact is predominantly negative; however, particular features also provide certain advantages both to employees and organizations.
Objective: The Mental Health Continuum – Short Form is a brief scale measuring positive
human functioning. The study aimed to examine the factor structure and to explore the cross
cultural utility of the MHC-SF using bifactor models and exploratory structural equation
modelling (ESEM). Method: Using multigroup confirmatory analysis (MGCFA) we exa...
The present paper aims to answer the question about actual role of Life History Strategy (LHS) as a factor underpinning associations between the Dark Triad (DT) personality and Time Perspectives (TPs). Recently Birkás and Csathó (2015, Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 318–320) provided evidence for some robust associations between these...
Previous research has demonstrated that under stress people make more deontological than utilitarian judgements. We however suggest that the relationship between stress and moral decisions may differ depending on which goals are accessible. In this study we focused on the goal to achieve certainty and individual differences in its importance, expre...
In five studies (total N = 1,300) we developed and validated a Polish version of the Dirty Dozen measure (DTDD-P) that measures the three traits of the Dark Triad, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. We detail the presence and stability of a bifactor structure of the 12 items and present evidence for good internal consistency and test–re...
The current report presents the factor structure analysis for the Communal Narcissism Inventory (CNI). The bi-factor model assuming one general factor and two residual factors (present-focused and future-focused communal narcissism) was examined across two student samples originating from Poland (N = 831) and the UK (N = 304) and compared to one-fa...
In two studies, we examined the influence of behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and need for closure (NFC) on information processing in decision making. We expected that BIS would regulate behavior in a decisional context and that this relationship would be mediated by epistemic motivation expressed by NFC. In addition, drawing on contradictory fin...
The present study investigates whether similarity in personality traits between a sender displaying affect and a receiver observing it influences the social induction of affect. We hypothesized that exposure to a similar sender would foster concordant affective reactions, whereas exposure to a dissimilar sender would foster discordant ones. To indu...
We investigated the relations between narcissism, self-assessed intelligence and subjective well-being. In three studies, we aimed to replicate previous findings concerning the relationship between narcissism and both objectively and subjectively assessed intelligence (Study 1), as well as to examine whether the latter influenced narcissists’ satis...
The present experiment (N = 95) investigated the relations of narcissism with social value orientation under façade conditions of testing communal or agentic traits (or none – in a control condition). The results indicated that narcissism predicted less willingness to share resources with others and more competitive orientation in a façade communal...
The objective of this study was to test the effects of two types of narcissism on popularity in peer networks. Using data from four groups of well-acquainted students (N=122), we investigated differential relations of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism with network centrality indicators of liking and disliking. Grandiose narcissists received a lar...
The current study provides the first examination of the relationship between life history indicators and the Dark Triad traits in an international sample drawn from the U.S. (n = 264), Singapore (n = 185), and Poland (n = 177). In all three samples, the Dark Triad traits were associated with psychosocial costs, although there were more links in the...
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ve theories, illusions, and misconceptions regarding the outcome of men’s cigarette smoking on female impressions. Beliefs about those outcomes were examined in a correlational study and their content was compared with the results of previous experimental veri
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cation. Male and female participants (N = 396) responded to...
The study addresses the question of links between narcissism and position in proximate social groups, defined as approval, popularity (positive, negative and overall) and centrality. Narcissists exhibit many socially undesirable features and behaviours, therefore the main hypothesis was that narcissistic people will be unpopular and disapproved by...
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Or in other words: does such probing deserve the label "Johnson-Neyman technique"? Imagine I successfully find the region of significance by probing the effect iteratively at various moderator values (with precision to a second decimal place). May I report that I performed "Johnson-Neyman analysis" or not?
Does anybody know and can anyone help with the following?
In a partially restricted actor-partner interdependence model (on a dataset of distinguishable dyads) estimated using lavaan in R, the function parameterEstimates returns DIFFERENT standardized coefficients for effects that were restricted to be equal across partners (while the unstandardized coefficients are indeed equal). Is this correct and supposed to be so? Also, how to handle this in a paper? Is it unadvisable to use standardized coefficients in APIM? (any reference to back the claim up, please?) Or: is there a better way to obtain (more? :) correct estimates?
